Aretha Franklin Dies

[u crank]

Originally Posted by ReallyDedPoet

Heard a theory on CBC yesterday morning that there was a time when many from the Island went to Detroit to work in the auto industry. Maybe a connection there, maybe not, but interesting nonetheless.

That is a possibility. Another is that both the character Anne and Aretha lost their birth mothers at an early age.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Originally Posted by u crank

That is a possibility. Another is that both the character Anne and Aretha lost their birth mothers at an early age.

I read as well she liked Anne's rebellious spirit

[vienna]

I do hope Aretha did get to go to Prince Edward before she passed. Since about the mid-80s, travel was difficult for her; Aretha was terrified of flying and only traveled by land or water:


Why Aretha Franklin Never Conquered Her Fear of Flying: ‘Who Cares?’ --


https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-ar...ying-who-cares




I was trying to pick one song I felt most captured the sense of Aretha's great talent; this is my pick: it has the connection to her Gospel roots and is one of the great all-time R&B songs and Aretha sings it to perfection:





















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[Mr Quatro]

Originally Posted by vienna

I was trying to pick one song I felt most captured the sense of Aretha's great talent; this is my pick: it has the connection to her Gospel roots and is one of the great all-time R&B songs and Aretha sings it to perfection:

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Good choice

I think I was in that chain gang

[u crank]

Originally Posted by vienna

I do hope Aretha did get to go to Prince Edward before she passed.

I sure wish she had but no. Our little island has a grand total of 143,000 souls. If she was here everybody would have known. Hell almost everybody is related.

I was trying to pick one song I felt most captured the sense of Aretha's great talent; this is my pick: it has the connection to her Gospel roots and is one of the great all-time R&B songs and Aretha sings it to perfection:

No argument here. That is a heavy duty piece of music. Joe South playing that great tremolo guitar and Aretha on a mission. We are going to miss her.

[vienna]

Aretha was always the "Queen Of Soul" and she was most often seen as a regal 'Diva", but she did have a wicked, dry sense of humor. She appeared on an episode of the TV series Murphy Brown as herself and she meets one of her biggest fans:



















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